Beth Shapiro

It's worth looking at.

I think people introduced them for some reason that I can't remember what it was.

Yeah.

So we have a good history of doing this kind of thing.

I think people can eat them probably, but they eat everything from all of the vegetation to the other snails.

To plaster.

They'll eat their way through infrastructure that people have built.

Yeah.

So we introduced these little things, rosy wolf snails, to try to control them, but instead they're killing all the endemic snails.

I remember when my kids were little watching the Wild Kratts.

There was a Wild Kratts episode about honey badgers, how they were all cute when they were babies because they were hiding in camouflage.

I think they look very cute.

That's amazing.

So have people been able to understand better antivenom properties from studying them?

Yeah.

He looks vicious.

That pattern on the coat is really beautiful.

Have you heard about the hippo solution in the early 20th century?

This is a great sort of American history story because our country is replete with people with brilliant ideas, right?

And in the early 20th century, when the land in the West was not doing so well, been overgrazed, there were too many cattle and there was this thing called the meat question.